Scientific Name
Artemisia roxburghiana Wall.
Synonyms
Family
Asteraceae
Local Name
Kashmari Chahu
Habit Habitat
A strongly aromatic perennial herb up to 70cm tall, found in sub-alpine and alpine zones.
Taxonomic Features
Stem several, often purplish tinged, whitish and hairy. Leaves almost sessile, oblong-ovate to broadly elliptic, green above, greynish white arachnoid beneath, bipinnatisect. Middle stem leaves auricled at the base. Inflorescence composed of heterogamous capitula, sessile or very short peduncled. Florets 20-40, usually purple-brown tinged, fertile. Marginal 5-8 with 2-dentate corolla. Disc florets 15-30 with 5-toothed corolla. Fruit a cypsela, brown.
Flowering Fruiting
July-October
Harvesting Time
August-December
Medicinal Value
Locally whole plant extract is useful in fever, diabetes. Decoction is used for stomach healing, worm killing and to cure allergies in local areas.
Parts Used
Whole plant
Future Prospective
Collection, Drying, Packing, Herbal pharmacy, Allopathic Pharmacy, Cosmetic.
Plant Images
Artemisia roxburghiana Wall.